Things you find very difficult to open, or get into etc

[Kingfisher101]

Some thick boxes can be really bad as well. I have a couple of really good locking knives with thick blades I use for them?

Has anyone ever managed to open a tin with a Swiss Army Knife, the special blade? It goes forward but I couldn't do it.

 

[slowmotion]

Packs of bacon, steak etc. it says"peel here" at the corner but very rarely peels back so you've got to cut it

.......and another thing.......why do they seal the two layers of plastic about a tenth of a millimetre from the edge of the steak? You have to hack though a sliver of meat to get the plastic off.

Utter tossers.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Has anyone ever managed to open a tin with a Swiss Army Knife, the special blade? It goes forward but I couldn't do it.

I have but it's inefficient, time consuming and boring. Never again!

 

[Drago]

Rosamund Pike's bedroom.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Those hard plastic covers which are shrink wrapped round the contents. I've spilt more blood opening these than a Celtic supporter who wandered into the Rangers end at Ibrox.

 

[Drago]

VHS video cassettes. No wonder the format went obsolete because no bugger could open the media.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

VHS video cassettes. No wonder the format went obsolete because no bugger could open the media.

The trick was that there was a hole on one specific place that engaged with the mechanism

If you jabbed a ball point pen - or a pencil - through the plastic at that point it will go through
then it will peel off OK
normally in little bits but after a few it will all come off

Now you will be OK next time you need to unwrap an brand new VHS tape


oh - hang on

 

[Slick]

Those hard plastic covers which are shrink wrapped round the contents. I've spilt more blood opening these than a Celtic supporter who wandered into the Rangers end at Ibrox.

Pedant, but every end is the Rangers end at Ibrox.

 

[PeteXXX]

These, and shoe polish, tins that used to have a twiddly thingy to open them.
Now it's a 'Press Here' that doesn't work.. 😣

 

[Accy cyclist]

tin opener... take off the top and bottom for stress free* corned beef

*getting the tin opener around the tight corners can be slightly stressful though

And put the tin in the fridge for at least half an hour before opening so the contents firm up, making it easier to push the corned beef out the tin.

 

[grldtnr]

Rosamund Pike's bedroom.

Have you tried using the bedroom window and a ladder.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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These, and shoe polish, tins that used to have a twiddly thingy to open them.
Now it's a 'Press Here' that doesn't work.. 😣

Mine still has a twiddly thing

I think it might be getting on a bit - does it go off??

 

[PeteXXX]

Mine still has a twiddly thing

I think it might be getting on a bit - does it go off??

😂
It does go a bit crispy after a couple of years!

 

[captain nemo1701]

.......and another thing.......why do they seal the two layers of plastic about a tenth of a millimetre from the edge of the steak? You have to hack though a sliver of meat to get the plastic off.

Utter tossers.

Bacon hermetically sealed in thick plastic requiring precision surgery with a Stanley knife......the wafer-thin impossible to pull tab always breaks off.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I had a lot of trouble getting a CR2032 coin cell battery out of its armoured plastic packaging yesterday. I suppose scissors or a craft knife would have been the tool for the job but as I didn't have one to hand I found that repeatedly jabbing the plastic with a small screwdriver eventually released the battery. It took about 10x the amount of time it would have taken me to fetch a pair of scissors or a penknife/craft knife but I got the satisfaction of a job bodged badly.